Bug#560411: debian-policy: Document debconf's SETTITLE command in the debconf-spec

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Frans Pop writes: > Inclusion of this command should not pose any problems as it has been > supported since 1993 (debconf version 1.3.22). I think you mean 2003. Otherwise looks fine to me. Seconded. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@list

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, tagging 347581 ...

2010-06-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Policy release planned for next weekend

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
I'm planning to upload Policy 3.8.5 next weekend (the delay being some time to make the necessary updates to Lintian and hopefully release both together). Please let me know if anyone sees any problems with that plan. If someone has a moment, I'd appreciate another review on #560411. I'd like to

Bug#575639: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Here's a proposed patch that cleans up the wording of Maintainer, > Uploaders, and Changed-By to reflect current practice. There is another > outstanding bug in this area to document further restrictions on > Maintainer and Uploaders, but this is the easy part so I wanted

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > For background here, this bug is about permitting the splitting of the > architecture-independent headers for a library into a separate -headers > package rather than requiring (which the current Policy wording implies) > that they be in the usually architecture-dependent -

Bug#284340: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila writes: > Noted, thanks. > I assume we will have to wait some time before we can remove the license > itself from base-files (i.e. until all packages stop referencing the > file). Yeah, the next release of Lintian will have a tag for it, so we'll be able to start tracking the prog

Bug#284340: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license

2010-06-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 14/06/10 12:55, Santiago Vila wrote: > I assume we will have to wait some time before we can remove the > license itself from base-files (i.e. until all packages stop > referencing the file). Yes, that would be step 3 in Russ' plan. Cheers, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-

Bug#284340: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license

2010-06-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > 2. Apply the patch to Policy included below, which removes this license > >from the list of licenses we tell people to reference from > >/usr/share/common-licenses and explains why. > > This patch has now been merged

Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 19:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Helps if I send this to the correct bug. > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > * maintainer-name-missing and uploader-name-missing are both automatic > > rejects in the ftp-master checks, which makes them automatically > > severity: serious i

Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

2010-06-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 14/06/10 04:00, Russ Allbery wrote: > Objections or seconds? > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index df6ae89..5a76cf3 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ Package: libc6 > > > The package maintainer's name and email address. The

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

2010-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:31:03AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > will web servers find the CGI scripts automagically in > > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/? > > That's the implication of this section. Web servers should be configured > to serve that location by default. This i